New York City Bar Announces Winners of 2005-2006 Thurgood Marshall Fellowships

New York -- The Association of the Bar of the City of New York is pleased to announce the winners of the Thurgood Marshall Fellowships for the 2005-2006 academic year. The Thurgood Marshall Fellowship Program provides two exceptional minority students from New York area law schools the opportunity to work with the Association to advance the goals of civil rights and equal justice, hallmarks of Justice Marshall's legacy. Fellowships have been awarded to Dariely Rodriguez of Hofstra University School of Law and Michael S. Oppenheimer of CUNY Law School.

Ms. Rodriguez will assist the City Bar Justice Center and Mr. Oppenheimer will work with the Association’s Civil Rights Committee.

The fellowships are funded by the Orison S. Marden Lecture Fund and are open to second and third year minority law students from New York area law schools. Fellows were nominated by their schools and selected by the Association's Committee on the Thurgood Marshall Fellowship Program, chaired by Mr. Ira M. Feinberg.

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The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (www.nycbar.org) was founded in 1870, and since then has been dedicated to maintaining the high ethical standards of the profession, promoting reform of the law, and providing service to the profession and the public.